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Chapter 6: Working With Tables
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of the following statements best describes the characteristics of an effective table?
A. The table explains the topic, context, and measurement unit of numbers.
B. The settings of the topic are clearly given in the table.
C. The table is focused on one topic and interpretation of its numbers.
D. The source and context of numbers are clearly explained in the table.
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Criteria for Effective Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. What does the term “focused table” refer to?
A. focus on objective of the topic
B. define the settings of the concept
C. focus on one aspect of the topic
D. define the source and context of values
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focused Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. What is the primary requirement of a self-contained table?
A. Readers understand the source of all numbers.
B. The context and measurement unit is given.
C. The table defines pertinent terms and all variables.
D. Readers should not have to refer to another exhibit.
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Self-Contained Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Which of the following best describes the requirement of a table title?
A. It should itemize all variables.
B. It should use thematic labels.
C. The topic must be defined.
D. The title should explain the context.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Title
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The word “by” or the phrase “according to” in a table title often differentiates which two entities?
A. dependent variable and ordinal variable
B. ordinal and nominal variable
C. dependent and independent variables
D. numeric and categorical variables
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Title
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. When is a spanner placed across columns in a table?
A. Most numbers are in the same units.
B. All numbers are for the same location.
C. Most values are for one-time period.
D. All numbers are for a common variable.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Column Headings
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. In a table of sex by income range, a cell containing just one case was intentionally omitted from the table. What could be the reason for this omission?
A. Case in cell is below a certain value.
B. to protect confidentiality of a case
C. the value in the cell is an outlier
D. to avoid reporting nonverifiable case
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Interior Cells
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. The researcher of a study would like to list the full form of abbreviations used and data source in the tables she is preparing to present her findings. Where should she place these in the tables?
A. the title
B. column headings
C. footnote
D. row labels
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Notes to Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Panels within a table could be used to do which of the following?
A. organize variables into a thematic layout
B. compare different studies or topics
C. insert graphs and charts into a table
D. create summaries of several tables
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Panels
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. What does the term “cognitive load” refer to?
A. the number of rows and columns in a table
B. difficulty in understanding table footnotes
C. the different measures presented in a table
D. the effort required to comprehend a table
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizing Data in Tables and Charts
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. The criteria for how to organize a table depends on which of the following?
A. whether the variables are categorical or numeric
B. presenting an analysis versus information for analysis
C. writing a univariate versus a multivariate analysis
D. analyzing one aspect of a topic or multiple aspects
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Level of Measurement
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. What does it mean to organize a table in empirical order?
A. layout a table by multiple items in columns
B. organize a table by multiple items in rows ordinally
C. list items by ascending or descending numeric value
D. list items with the same measure in blocks or panels
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Empirical Order
Difficulty Level: Easy
13. What would be a useful way of organizing a table containing data from an analysis of only two or three primary variables of interest?
A. list the variables by their descending numeric frequency
B. organize the variables by their common measurement unit
C. layout independent variables by descending correlation factor
D. list dependent variable, then independent variables by importance
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizing Variables by Their Role in an Analysis
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. A website presents data on life insurance premiums and claims by state and time period in the United States. These data are mainly for use by researchers on the life insurance domain. How should the data variables be organized on the website?
A. organize variables by descending numeric frequency
B. list by alphabetical order or as collected from source
C. list the dependent variable first, then other variables
D. layout independent variables by order of importance
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Organizing Data in Tables Intended for Data Lookup
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Which are the two primary ways that items in a table, with an associated textual description, are organized?
A. thematic or empirical order
B. alphabetical or by frequency
C. source order or alphabetical
D. empirical order or by source
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizing data in tables to accompany a written description
Difficulty Level: Easy
16. What is generally the purpose of a three-way table in presenting numbers?
A. change in variable with change in two other variables individually
B. rate of change in three variables of a study shown individually
C. change in a variable with changes in two other variables together
D. fluctuation in three variables in a study taken two at a time
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Organizing data in three-way tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. When reading a well-designed table, one should be able to discern which of the following in relation to the numbers in the table?
A. the topic and conclusions made from the study
B. the location, time period, and case type of a topic
C. the unit of measurement of all numbers in the table
D. the topic, context, units, categories, and data source
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Reading Data From Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
18. Which parts of a table identify categories that make up a larger item or theme?
A. table heading and subtitles
B. indented row labels and spanners
C. row headings and column labels
D. table title and panels or blocks
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Reading Data From Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. A table has the variable “median annual income” in rows and the variable “age group” in columns. What term is used to refer to this type of a table?
A. two-by-two table
B. cross-tabulation
C. frequency distribution
D. 2-variable spread
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Direction of Percentage Calculations
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. If the table described in Question 19 has a TOTAL row and a TOTAL column, both holding absolute numeric values, and, the other table cells hold percentage values, what does the reader need to know regarding each cell value to correctly interpret the percentages?
A. the column total
B. the numerator
C. the denominator
D. the row total
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Direction of Percentage Calculations
Difficulty Level: Hard
21. A dependent variable in a research study on a particular virus infection has the possible values, “At risk of infection” or “Not at risk of infection.” What is this type of variable called?
A. Boolean
B. empirical
C. nominal
D. dichotomous
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Percentages for Two-Category Variables
Difficulty Level: Easy
22. A table is given where credit score ranges are in rows, and age-group ranges are in columns. A row TOTAL and a column TOTAL are given as absolute values. The percentages in the table cells of a row sums to 100% value of the column TOTAL for that row. The direction in which percentages are calculated is which of the following?
A. horizontal
B. vertical
C. diagonal
D. incremental
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Percentages for Two-Category Variables
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. What does landscape layout of a table refer to?
A. horizontal dimension shorter than vertical dimension
B. vertical dimension shorter than horizontal dimension
C. horizontal and vertical dimensions of equal size
D. vertical dimension holds more than 15 columns
Learning Objective: 6-5: Design a table with appropriate layout and numeric detail.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Portrait Versus Landscape Layout
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. When designing a table, which of the following should be used to determine which variable to put in rows?
A. unit of measure of the variables
B. identifying the dependent variable
C. the concept being measured in the table
D. number of variables, statistics, or categories
Learning Objective: 6-5: Design a table with appropriate layout and numeric detail.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Portrait Versus Landscape Layout
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. A table shows numeric results to five decimal places. What would be the best way to present these numbers?
A. round up the numbers to the nearest integer
B. minimum number of digits/decimals to show objective of study
C. round up the numbers to two decimal places
D. present the numbers as they are found in the raw data
Learning Objective: 6-5: Design a table with appropriate layout and numeric detail.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Digits and Decimal Places
Difficulty Level: Easy
True/False
1. A focused table focuses on just one aspect of a concept or topic.
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Focused tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. A self-contained table is one which presents all the variables used in a research study, but not necessarily their data sources.
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Self-Contained Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
3. In a study which contains many tables to present the data and findings, the title of each table should use thematic headings.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Title
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. The title of a table containing the phrase “according to” generally differentiates between a nominal and an ordinal variable.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Title
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. If the measurement unit is the same for all values in a table, the measure may be stated in the title of the table.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Units
Difficulty Level: Easy
6. A bi-variate table should mention the measure of association shown in the table title.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Types of Measures or Statistics
Difficulty Level: Easy
7. Acronyms may be used for row and column labels where the variable or category names are lengthy and require textual description.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Row and Column Labels
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. A table with most, but not all, columns having the same measurement unit, should use a spanner to generalize units of those columns with the same unit.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Column Headings
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. In properly organizing a table, the level of measurement of an ordinal variable shown in the table should be presented in either ascending or descending rank order.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Level of Measurement
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. When reading a table, the reader should be able to identify the data sources of the numbers from the notes section of the table.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Reading Data From Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
Short Answer
1. To present data and results of a research study, what are the primary characteristics of an effective table?
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Criteria for Effective Tables
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. On reading a table, a reader should be able to understand and interpret which components related to the numbers in the table?
Learning Objective: 6-1: State the criteria for effective tables.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Criteria for Effective Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Explain in your own words, the various parts of an effective table and their usage.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Anatomy of a Table
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. A table has the title “Number of traffic violations by age group and education level.” What could be said of the variables in this title? Explain your answer.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Title
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. A table lists two nominal variables in rows with the categories within each variable given under the main variable label. The cells of the table percent frequency distribution of each of the two nominal variables by year. How would you better organize this table for ease of reading?
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Indenting
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Provide an example of a case where you would use a spanner in a table. Explain your answer.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Column Spanners
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. In a table showing credit score ranges of customers by county and income group, two cells for a particular county were shown as missing, even though the raw data were available for these cells. The measurement unit of the table was count of customers of a particular retail outlet. What could be the reason for not showing counts for the two cells?
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Interior Cells
Difficulty Level: Hard
8. Describe the common uses of footnotes to a table. Provide an example.
Learning Objective: 6-2: Name the parts of tables and guidelines for their use.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Notes to Tables
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Distinguish between using thematic criteria and empirical order to organize a table with an associated description. Provide an example.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Organizing Data in Tables to Accompany a Written Description
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. How should a table, intended for data lookup and whose data was collected in the order of the data source, be organized? Illustrate with an example.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Order of Items as Collected From Source
Difficulty Level: Hard
Essay
1. A study of an electronic retailer concluded that gross sales of branches were associated with zip codes within a 5-mile radius of the branch, median household income of the county, and age-group of customers. Describe how you would organize a table of data from this study. Explain your reasoning.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Describe the principles for organizing data in tables and how to choose among them.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Multiple Criteria for Organizing Tables
Difficulty Level: Hard
2. Construct, with imaginary data or data of your choosing, a cross-tabulation with illustrative numbers as percentages. Discuss how the direction of percentage calculations changes with change in the denominator.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Read and interpret data from tables.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Direction of Percentage Calculations
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. For the study numbers in Question 1, discuss how you would design the table with respect to layout, alignment, and numeric values shown in the table. Explain your reasoning.
Learning Objective: 6-5: Design a table with appropriate layout and numeric detail.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Considerations for Creating Tables
Difficulty Level: Hard
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